Book Review

The Encounter
By Steve Arterburn

This novel is just the right length that I could read it even though I didn’t feel I had a lot of time available. I downloaded it last night around midnight, stayed up a few hours reading it and then finished it this morning before getting up to get ready for church. It was a beautiful story, where desperate people did desperate things…YEARS AGO, so I didn’t have to actually witness it happen, I only watched while the primary characters tried to deal with the fall out years later. I liked this book because people were good to each other, even though they had bad moments, the bad moments weren’t described in a way that scared me, they just happened and then went on to make amends. The ending was especially satisfying…and at the very very end the author explains the importance of dealing with issues in our lives that embitter our lives. In the story our hero had to go back to deal with something that had happened to him when he was four. Changed the course of his life. Yet, once he understood where the person who had wounded him was coming from, what HER life details had been at the time, he understood her motives and was able to forgive her. It was a beautiful beautiful story. I received a free digital copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.